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DOMESTIC OR RAILWAY GAR HEATER. I

No. 398,578. Patented Feb. 26, 1889.

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\NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\YILLIAM P. BEXDIXG, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF NINESIXTEENTHS TO VAN 9. QELTZER, A. B. ROBINSON, AND \VM. H. SLADE, ALL OF SAME PLACE,

DOMESTIC OR RAILWAY-CAR HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,573, dated February 26, 1889.

Application filed April 14, 1888. Serial No. 270,655. (No model.)

To (oZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM P. .BENDING,

a citizen of the United States, residing at I lumbus, in the county of Franklin and State v of Ohio, have invented a new and useful lmprovement in Domestic and Railway- Car Heaters, of which the followingis a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in car-heaters; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of devices that i will be more fully set; forth hereinafter, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a vertical sectional view of a car-heater embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the same, taken on Y Fig. 3 a detail per- 3 Fig. lis a detailed pert l t l 1 l i l v the door of the car, and on which the outer shell, A, is supported, the depending studs C.

of the bottom plates of the shell serving to support the latter at a slight distance above the tank D, and thereby forming an air-space. between the tank and the outer shell, and i through one side of the inner shell, E, down consequently preventing the contents of the tank from being overheated. The purpose of this tank is to contain extinguishing-fluid. The appliances and connections for this reservoir are not seen.

E represents the inner shell or heater proper, the same being arranged conccntricj allyin the outer shell, and having the fire box or pot F, the dome G, and the ash-pit H. The

tire-pot is made of two sections secured tol l l gether by a lapped joint, I, and the dome is i provided at its lower edge with a depending end of the said chute is arranged afeed-trough, Z, having the quarter circular end plates, a, 9 and the right-angled sides Z). From the ends offset flange, K. which forms a lap-joint with the upper portion of the inner shell.

L )1 represent a pair of deflecting-plates,

which are inclined at suitable angles and in opposite directions, and are each semieircular in form at their upper edges, and provided with ontwardly-extending circular flanges N, which engage the upper edge of the inner shell and bear between the same and the lower edge of the dome G. The lower edge of the deflecting-plate BI is bent at right angles to form an inclined ledge, O, and depend ing from the said ledge and from the rear lower side of the deflecting-plate M is a pair of vertical plates or ribs, P, at the lower edges of which is a horizontal circular deflecting- 6o disk,'R. The said disk, vertical plates, plate M, and ledge O are formed integral of a single piece of cast metal. The lower edge of the plate L extends over the ledge 0 at a slight distance above the same and is provided with a recess, 5.

T represents an escape-pipe for the smoke and products of combustion, which communicates with and extends from the top of the dome G, is then bent downward and arranged in the space between the outer shell, A, and the inner shell or heater, E, passes through one side of the outer shell, A, and from thence extends longitudinally under the bottom of the car, (not shown,) and then passes upward through 7 5 the root of the car and is provided with a suitable eduction-hood.

U represents an induciioi'l-pipe, which has its upper end arranged in the stove E at a suitable distance below the center of the defleeting-disk R, Said eduction-pipe passes between said shell and the outer shell, A, through the bottom of the car, and is provided at its lower end with a double-ended eduction-hood, V, which is provided with an antoinatically-operated valve, XV. The said induction-pipe is further provided with a draft-regulator or damper, X.

Y represents a teed-chute, which extends from one side of the inner shell, at a suitable height above the firepot, upward and outward through the shell A. In the outer open of the said trough atthe vertices of the plates A project ears 0, which are pivoted on a rod or was to promote active combustion of ffuel.

bolt, (7, that passes through bearings c on the lower side of the chute at the outer end thereof. This trough is thereby adapted to be rocked -r oscillated through nearly a quar- 5 ter of a circle in the mouth of the chute, and the opera ion thereof is as follows: i The feed-trough is in its initial or normal position when the upper edge of its inner 1 side is in contact with the upper side of 1 the chute, as shown in Fig. 1, thereby arranging the outer side of the said feedtrough at a distance beyond the mouth of the chute. Coal or fuel is poured into the i trough, and the latteris then rocked or tilted on i s pivotal bolt, so as to cause it to assume the ition indicated in full lines in Fig. l, 3 with its inner side in contact with the lower 1 side of the chute and its outer side snugly pressed against the 'mouth of the chute, the, said trough thereby feeding-the fuel through the chute into the fire, and also serving to effectually close the mouth of the chute at all i times, so that gas from the burning fuel cannot escape into the car, and so that burning I coal cannot escape from the stove through the chute in the event that the stove should j be overturned in arailway accident.

The operation of my improved heater is as follows: 'hen the car is in motion in either direction, a current of air is caused to pass upward through the induction-pipe U and to strike against the lower side ofv the disk R, where it is deflected and caused to pass under the said disk, around the same, and up through 5 the space bet-ween the ledge O and the lower ledge of the plate L, and from thence up tirough the dome, through the eduction-pipe, through which latter the air escapes, together with the smoke and products of. combustion. 0 By. this meansa constant circulation of airis maintained in the heater above the fire-box, so The diskv Rand the plates L M serve to deflect the heat downward and outward, as will be readily understood, so as to reduce the'loss of heat to a minimum and to reflectas much heatas possible from the inner shell to the outer shell, which latter serves to heat the surrounding atmospheric air by radiation. Having thus described my invention, I

claim' 1. The innershell and the removable dome G, the latter having the depending flange K, to fit'around the upper end of the shell, in i combination with the deflecting-plates L M, inclined in opposite directions and having the flanges N at their upper edges, said flanges bearing on the upper side of the shell, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the shell or stove, of the deflecting-plates L H, suspended in'the upper end thereof and inclined in opposite directions, and the horizontal deflecting-plate R, having the vertical ribs P on its upper side fast to the lower edge ofthe plate M, substantially as described.

3. The heater comprising the outer shell, the inner shell or stove, the eduction-pipe lead- 1 ing from the upper end of the latter and extending out through the outer shell, the oppositely-inclined deflecting-plates L M in the upper end of the inner shell, the horizontal deflecting-plate below plates L M, and the airinduction pipe having its upper end arranged under the horizontal deflecting-plate, substantially as described.

4.. In a heater,-the fire-pot, combined with I the dcflectiug-plaies I. M, arranged in the upper end of the fire-pot, the lower edge of the plate M being extended below the plate L and having the ledge O, and the horizontal deflecting-disk R, suspended below the deflectingplates at or about the ledge O, as set forth.

5. The heater provided with the oppositelyinclined plates L M, having their meeting inner ends separated by a space, and the horizontal deflectingalisk R, suspended below the meeting inner ends of the plates and secured toone of said plates, as set forth.

. 6. The inner sh ell and the removable dome G, combined with the removable deflectors L M, the latter being held in place within the shell by means of the dome, as set forth.

7. The heater having the inclined deflectorplates L M above the fire-box, the deflectordisk R, suspended below the plates, the eduction-pipe T, leading from the dome of the heater above the deflectors, and the inductionpipe' U, having its upper end arranged below the deflectors, as set forth.

In testimony thatl claim the foregoing as my ownI have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM P. BENDING.

\Vitnesses:

ASHLEY B. ROBINSON, WILLIAM H. SLADE. 

